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5. Those evading compliance with sanitary regulations shall be immediately evicted from the Kremlin and brought to trial for inflicting public harm.

6. Sanitary inspection shall extend to the entire civilian and military population of the Kremlin.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

*Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin.*

24789

TELEGRAM TO THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S COMMISSARS OF UKRAINE
KHARKOV
18 February 1919

The Kharkov statisticians have addressed the head of the Central Statistical Administration, comrade Popov, with a proposal to enter into negotiations with the Ukrainian Soviet government concerning the organization of Ukrainian statistics according to the model of state statistics of the Soviet Republic—Russia. Should you agree, comrade Popov may be delegated to Ukraine for this purpose. I request a telegraphic reply*.

Lenin

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DECREE
19 February 1919

It is prescribed to People's Commissar A. D. Tsyurupa, in view of his resumption of work and the necessity of safeguarding state property, to strictly observe precautions:

not to work more than two hours without interruption.
not to work after 10 o'clock in the evening.
not to receive the public**.

To execute without question the restrictive prescriptions of Lydia Alexandrovna Fotiyeva.

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
V. Ulyanov (Lenin)

* Printed from the original signed by V. I. Lenin. The last phrase is written in his hand.

** The decree was issued by V. I. Lenin in connection with the resumption of work by A. D. Tsyurupa following a severe illness.

YEAR 1919

23778

NOTATION ON A LETTER FROM THE COMMUNE OF WATER TRANSPORT WORKERS*
20 February 1919

Kremlin, to the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars
Comrade Lenin, V. I.

Dear Comrade Vladimir Ilyich,

It would be most desirable to name after your name     No objection,
our first organizing commune of water transport      Lenin
workers in house no. 3 on Lubyanka Square. Please do not refuse to inform the communal council of your consent.

ON THE CLOSURE OF THE MENSHEVIK NEWSPAPER UNDERMINING THE DEFENSE OF THE COUNTRY

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DRAFT RESOLUTION OF THE ALL-RUSSIAN CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE**
22 February 1919

Taking into consideration:

1) that the Menshevik newspaper "Always Forward" in its issue of 20 February 1919, in the article "End the Civil War," has definitively proven its counter-revolutionary orientation;

2) that the slogan "down with the civil war," now directly put forward by this newspaper at a time when the troops of landowners and capitalists, led by Kolchak, occupy not only Siberia but also Perm, amounts to support for Kolchak and an obstacle to the workers and peasants of Russia bringing the war against Kolchak to victory;

3) that in this manner the Mensheviks, who in the resolution of their party conference condemned the predominant number of party Mensheviks who carried out an alliance with the propertied classes—that is, with landowners and capitalists in Siberia, in Arkhangelsk, on the Volga, in Georgia and in the South—are now in fact beginning to carry out this same policy, hypocritically renouncing it in words;

* V. I. Lenin's notation on the document is written in the hand of L. A. Fotiyeva.

** The document is printed from the manuscript of V. I. Lenin (received from TsGAOR, collection 1235, inventory 63, file 261).